IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/dbk/health/v3y2024ip.379id.379.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making in Healthcare Management

Author

Listed:
  • Hasan
  • Thakkar
  • Sahoo
  • Goyal
  • Seth
  • Jayakumar
  • Sikchi

Abstract

Introduction:The healthcare industry faces complex ethical dilemmas and decisions daily. Leadership's role in providing guidance and making ethical decisions is crucial to maintaining the industry's integrity and trust. This study aimed to examine the relationship between leadership and ethical decision-making in healthcare management. Methods:A qualitative research design was employed, involving in-depth interviews with 20 healthcare managers from various organizations. The participants were chosen through purposive sampling, ensuring representation from a variety of roles in the healthcare management field. Thematic analysis was used to identify patterns and themes in the data. Results:The findings revealed that leadership plays a significant role in shaping an organization's ethical culture and influencing ethical decision-making processes. Transformational and ethical leadership styles were identified as the most effective in promoting ethical decision-making. Additionally, it was found that strong moral leadership leads to better outcomes, including improved employee morale and trust, decreased conflicts, and increased patient satisfaction. Conclusions:This study emphasizes the importance of leadership in ethical decision-making in healthcare management. It highlights the need for healthcare leaders to possess strong moral values and to create a moral climate in their organizations. The findings also suggest that training in ethical decision-making and promoting a supportive culture are vital.

Suggested Citation

Handle: RePEc:dbk:health:v:3:y:2024:i::p:.379:id:.379
DOI: 10.56294/hl2024.379
as

Download full text from publisher

To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
3. Perform a
for a similarly titled item that would be available.

More about this item

Statistics

Access and download statistics

Corrections

All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:dbk:health:v:3:y:2024:i::p:.379:id:.379. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Javier Gonzalez-Argote (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hl.ageditor.ar/ .

Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.